The tournament was hosted at the Premier Sports Campus located in Lakewood Ranch, Florida.
[1] The eight-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play.
[4][5] East Carolina's win was the program's first and also the first for third-year head coach Gary Higgins.
A tiebreaker was required to determine the fourth and fifth seeds as Rice and UAB both finished with sixteen points in conference play.
A second tiebreaker was required to determine the eighth and final seed in the tournament as Tulsa and UTSA both finished with 3–5–2 regular season records.